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Liberty Global Inc. (LBTYA): Today's Featured Media Laggard

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Liberty Global (
LBTYA) pushed the Media industry lower today making it today's featured Media laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.3%. By the end of trading, Liberty Global fell 94 cents (-1.4%) to $66.10 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 3.6 million shares of Liberty Global exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 2.1 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $64.77-$66.92 after having opened the day at $64.77 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $67.04. Other companies within the Media industry that declined today were:
Spanish Broadcasting System (
SBSA), down 9.8%,
Gray Television (
GTN.A), down 6.9%,
ChinaNet Online Holdings (
CNET), down 5.9%, and
Promotora de Informaciones SA/FI ADR (
PRIS), down 4.5%.

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Liberty Global, Inc. provides video, broadband Internet, and telephony services primarily in Europe and Chile. Liberty Global has a market cap of $9.76 billion and is part of the services sector. Shares are up 7.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are six analysts that rate Liberty Global a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and none rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Liberty Global as a
hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, growth in earnings per share and compelling growth in net income. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including disappointing return on equity, weak operating cash flow and generally higher debt management risk.